As a result of the 1992 Joint Training Review, the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) directed that the Joint Staff develop and institutionalize a requirements based training system to better focus DOD's training resources and return a better trained and more ready Joint Force. The first step was to define the capabilities required in terms of Task, Conditions, and Standards using the Universal Joint Task List (UJTL). Ideally, joint training should use the Joint Training System (JTS) process to translate missions to capability requirements using the UJTL. Once requirements are defined, training objectives are developed and events designed to accomplish those objectives. This process provides focus and discipline to the planning, execution and evaluation of events and will provide performance data to assess mission readiness.

A tremendous amount of energy has been invested to implement the system and the resource expenditure must be justified in terms of increased organizational performance. Organizational performance in DOD is measured in terms of readiness. The JTS is based on an analytical process of translating missions capability requirements to tasks, conditions, and standards to describe the level to which people must perform to accomplish the task. Consequently, the ability to measure the organizational performance of the tasks is essential.

This paper describes the analytical framework and reviews the research on collective performance measurement. It challenges the community to review the performance measurements in the UJTL to determine the sufficiency of those measures identified and make recommendations for new measurements.